August 13, 1975 (8 pages)

a CALIFORNIA’S FIRST PRISON It was hot and dirty, stuffy and overcrowded. Killings were as common as escapes and a man never knew if one or the other would be his fate. The brig Euphemia was no paradise, but it was infinitely better than the brick and ironbarred prison that the men were building. The year was 1852 and general James S. Estell had contracted to build California’s first state prison on twenty acres of land at Point San Quentin. Prisoners themselves would build the institution and in order to have them close at hand the Euphemia was anchored just off the point to house them. The ship could hold 40 t0 50 prisoners comfortably but it wasn’t long before the numbers grew to 300. Sheriffs were paid a dollar a mile for transporting prisoners to San Quentin and they were only too eager to add their salaries by taking a trip to San Francisco. Every morning the men were hauled to shore to make bricks for the new prison: The hills of the Mount Tamalpais country and the thick forests bordering 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., August 13, 1975 California Country Kristi Steber the working area made escape easy. Over 180 men walked away the first year. Evenings were spent drinking and playing cards. Liquor was plentiful and the prisoners’ meager belongings were traded back and forth during all night gambling sessions which frequently ended in brawls. Prison No. 87 created a new problem for the floating prison. The inmate’s name was Agnes -Reed; five other women joined her before the end of the year. Now evenings on the ship were spent gambling, drinking and fighting over the women’s favors. .Even the guards got involved and two of them threatened to kill each other over the favors of ‘Scotch Mary’’. By summer of 1853 three temporary wooden houses had been built and the women were moved to one of them. The “Stone House”, the first permanent administration building, was completed in 1854. Soon after that the first batch of convicts walked from the relative freedom and license of the Euphemia into the walls of the prison they had built themselves. Vital statistics BIRTHS DEVER At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada omy , Ca., on July 13, 1975, to . and ; Mrs. Bradley Dever of Grass Valley, a boy. ‘CHILDERS. At Sierra ‘Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 14, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Cary Childers of Grass Valley, a boy. ORTIZ — At Sierra Nevada 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY " PUBLISHING CO. Second: class postage paid at Nevada City,’ California. Adjudicated a legal” newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. -. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Yeor . $3.00 Two Yeors . $5.00 Member of } . PUBLISHERS NEWSPAPER -. E for you. Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 17. 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. John Ortiz of Grass Valley, a boy. . CHERRY At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 17, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Monon Cherry of Grass Valley, a boy. TWITCHELL, -At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 17, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Twitchell of Nevada City, a boy. WHITTLESEY At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 18, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whittlesey of North San Juan, a girl. EMMONS At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 18, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs Robert Emmons of Grass Valley, a_. girl. At Sierra ' STOGNER ‘ Nevada Memorial Hospital, . Nevada county, Ca., on July 20, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph . Stogner of Nevada City, a girl. THOMPSON At Sierra . ‘Nevada Memorial Hospital, . Nevada county, Ca., on July 23, / 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry . Thompson of Grass Valley, a ' BREUER Memorial Hospital, Nevada At Sierra Nevada county, Ca., on July 24, 1975, to ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Donald Breuer of . Grass Valley, @ boy. _ Tit back and let classified ads do the selling. renting or buying THE CARNIVAL will be as big and as much fun as ever this year at the Nevada County Fair. The fair opens August 21 and runs through August 25. Special prices for children will be held on Thursday and Friday. ‘Kids Day". By Fay. especially in Yellowstone. serious that controls were really necessary. Ranger Ross Rice told us all about bears. Natural number for Yosemite would be somewhere around 125, but the population is about 300. This is due to the excess food they get. Bears are smart and strong and seemed able to get people food no matter what measures were taken to protect it. Ranger Rice explained that by the time the engineers had invented a garbage container that would keep the bears out they couldn’t figure out how to open it themselves. He showed unbelievably delightful slides of bears to illustrate his program. The new control is based on hanging your food. Even this is very tricky. It must be at least 15 feet off the ground and as far from the nearest tree-in other words up and between two trees. When food is not available the bears go back to their natural food and are no longer a menace. They learned to work their claws in around the . glass of a car door and just lean back. This usually removed the entore door. If properly wrapped and stored in a closed box and locked in . the trunk of a car food is usually safe. These precautions are required now and while there is still trouble in some of the camps they are gradually eliminating the too friendly bear. The Rangers estimate there are only 6 or 8 on the valley floor in Yosemite. One of the Geology walks came the morning after the second big quake. The ranger exthe reason our cottage shook so much. Seems the granite cliffs don’t have much give. I never even heard a small rock slide. The valley floor is something else. There is about 2,000 feet of soft alluvial soil on the valley’s granite floor. It took something like 2,000,000 years for the whole phenominon to develop. At one time the entire valley was a great lake. As the waters gradually receeded the buildup of Morain or rock at the lower ee ten beae know ay, * t . ;" shake 2,000'. fé¢t' of, ‘allyrvial Rough and Ready News Dunbar buildup. Wonder what makes my house shake. There is certainly no soft soil around here. in “Yosemite is interesting and exciting to me and I could go on and on but you really must see it for yourself. It is one of only two such formations in the world. The other is in the Austrian Alps. My first surprise on returning home was at the service station. The Lemargies and the Vollmers have gone and in their place the Earl Jontes have taken over the Country Store and Service Station. Mr. Lee Lemargie has a trying heart condition. Perhaps now he will be able to (learn to live with it comfortably. Mr. Robert Vollmer, Twylla Lemargie’s brother, is working at Beale. : The Earl Jontes have lived in Rough and Ready many years. I was so surprised when I saw Ear] there that I forgot to ask him how long. Scott, the youngest, was little more than a baby then. He is a young man now and helps in the store. Mike, the next one, helped me many times while he was growing up. Mike has an older brother, Tony, that I didn’t get to know. There are two older Jonte children who were already away from home when the Jontes moved here. With the whole family helping maybe those long hours can be cut a bit. We had a marvelous time at the Nevada County Democratic Central Committee Luau last Sunday. Food chairman Idabel Covert provided lots of good Polynesian food. Hawaiian music and dance complete with the beautiful hand language was provided by our own Rough and Ready talent. Don Goodwin, Alice Licht, Edith McCoy and Josephine Webb did eight beautiful Hawaiian numbers. Bill Barnhart set up the sound system and my new collection of records provided a Hawaiian background for visiting and eating. Colorful Muus Muus, Leis, and Frangipani flowers graced the whole affair State Seantor Collier spoke briefly and made lots of friends with his comments. The only blue note was the absence of our 4th District Eric Rood who was to have in},* troduced the senator. Eric is in Letterman .‘Gerteral Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco. «

a CALIFORNIA’S FIRST PRISON It was hot and dirty, stuffy and overcrowded. Killings were as common as escapes and a man never knew if one or the other would be his fate. The brig Euphemia was no paradise, but it was infinitely better than the brick and ironbarred prison that the men were building. The year was 1852 and general James S. Estell had contracted to build California’s first state prison on twenty acres of land at Point San Quentin. Prisoners themselves would build the institution and in order to have them close at hand the Euphemia was anchored just off the point to house them. The ship could hold 40 t0 50 prisoners comfortably but it wasn’t long before the numbers grew to 300. Sheriffs were paid a dollar a mile for transporting prisoners to San Quentin and they were only too eager to add their salaries by taking a trip to San Francisco. Every morning the men were hauled to shore to make bricks for the new prison: The hills of the Mount Tamalpais country and the thick forests bordering 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., August 13, 1975 California Country Kristi Steber the working area made escape easy. Over 180 men walked away the first year. Evenings were spent drinking and playing cards. Liquor was plentiful and the prisoners’ meager belongings were traded back and forth during all night gambling sessions which frequently ended in brawls. Prison No. 87 created a new problem for the floating prison. The inmate’s name was Agnes -Reed; five other women joined her before the end of the year. Now evenings on the ship were spent gambling, drinking and fighting over the women’s favors. .Even the guards got involved and two of them threatened to kill each other over the favors of ‘Scotch Mary’’. By summer of 1853 three temporary wooden houses had been built and the women were moved to one of them. The “Stone House”, the first permanent administration building, was completed in 1854. Soon after that the first batch of convicts walked from the relative freedom and license of the Euphemia into the walls of the prison they had built themselves. Vital statistics BIRTHS DEVER At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada omy , Ca., on July 13, 1975, to . and ; Mrs. Bradley Dever of Grass Valley, a boy. ‘CHILDERS. At Sierra ‘Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 14, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Cary Childers of Grass Valley, a boy. ORTIZ — At Sierra Nevada 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY " PUBLISHING CO. Second: class postage paid at Nevada City,’ California. Adjudicated a legal” newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. -. Decree No. 12,406. Subscription Rates: One Yeor .. $3.00 Two Yeors .. $5.00 Member of } . PUBLISHERS NEWSPAPER -. E for you. Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 17. 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. John Ortiz of Grass Valley, a boy. . CHERRY At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 17, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Monon Cherry of Grass Valley, a boy. TWITCHELL, -At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 17, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Twitchell of Nevada City, a boy.

WHITTLESEY At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 18, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whittlesey of North San Juan, a girl. EMMONS At Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada county, Ca., on July 18, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs Robert Emmons of Grass Valley, a_. girl. At Sierra ' STOGNER ‘ Nevada Memorial Hospital, . Nevada county, Ca., on July 20, 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph . Stogner of Nevada City, a girl. THOMPSON At Sierra . ‘Nevada Memorial Hospital, . Nevada county, Ca., on July 23, / 1975, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry . Thompson of Grass Valley, a ' BREUER Memorial Hospital, Nevada At Sierra Nevada county, Ca., on July 24, 1975, to ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Donald Breuer of . Grass Valley, @ boy. _ Tit back and let classified ads do the selling. renting or buying THE CARNIVAL will be as big and as much fun as ever this year at the Nevada County Fair. The fair opens August 21 and runs through August 25. Special prices for children will be held on Thursday and Friday. ‘Kids Day". By Fay. especially in Yellowstone. serious that controls were really necessary. Ranger Ross Rice told us all about bears. Natural number for Yosemite would be somewhere around 125, but the population is about 300. This is due to the excess food they get. Bears are smart and strong and seemed able to get people food no matter what measures were taken to protect it. Ranger Rice explained that by the time the engineers had invented a garbage container that would keep the bears out they couldn’t figure out how to open it themselves. He showed unbelievably delightful slides of bears to illustrate his program. The new control is based on hanging your food. Even this is very tricky. It must be at least 15 feet off the ground and as far from the nearest tree-in other words up and between two trees. When food is not available the bears go back to their natural food and are no longer a menace. They learned to work their claws in around the . glass of a car door and just lean back. This usually removed the entore door. If properly wrapped and stored in a closed box and locked in . the trunk of a car food is usually safe. These precautions are required now and while there is still trouble in some of the camps they are gradually eliminating the too friendly bear. The Rangers estimate there are only 6 or 8 on the valley floor in Yosemite. One of the Geology walks came the morning after the second big quake. The ranger exthe reason our cottage shook so much. Seems the granite cliffs don’t have much give. I never even heard a small rock slide. The valley floor is something else. There is about 2,000 feet of soft alluvial soil on the valley’s granite floor. It took something like 2,000,000 years for the whole phenominon to develop. At one time the entire valley was a great lake. As the waters gradually receeded the buildup of Morain or rock at the lower ee ten beae know ay, * t . ;" shake 2,000'. fé¢t' of, ‘allyrvial Rough and Ready News Dunbar buildup. Wonder what makes my house shake. There is certainly no soft soil around here. in “Yosemite is interesting and exciting to me and I could go on and on but you really must see it for yourself. It is one of only two such formations in the world. The other is in the Austrian Alps. My first surprise on returning home was at the service station. The Lemargies and the Vollmers have gone and in their place the Earl Jontes have taken over the Country Store and Service Station. Mr. Lee Lemargie has a trying heart condition. Perhaps now he will be able to (learn to live with it comfortably. Mr. Robert Vollmer, Twylla Lemargie’s brother, is working at Beale. : The Earl Jontes have lived in Rough and Ready many years. I was so surprised when I saw Ear] there that I forgot to ask him how long. Scott, the youngest, was little more than a baby then. He is a young man now and helps in the store. Mike, the next one, helped me many times while he was growing up. Mike has an older brother, Tony, that I didn’t get to know. There are two older Jonte children who were already away from home when the Jontes moved here. With the whole family helping maybe those long hours can be cut a bit. We had a marvelous time at the Nevada County Democratic Central Committee Luau last Sunday. Food chairman Idabel Covert provided lots of good Polynesian food. Hawaiian music and dance complete with the beautiful hand language was provided by our own Rough and Ready talent. Don Goodwin, Alice Licht, Edith McCoy and Josephine Webb did eight beautiful Hawaiian numbers. Bill Barnhart set up the sound system and my new collection of records provided a Hawaiian background for visiting and eating. Colorful Muus Muus, Leis, and Frangipani flowers graced the whole affair State Seantor Collier spoke briefly and made lots of friends with his comments. The only blue note was the absence of our 4th District Eric Rood who was to have in},* troduced the senator. Eric is in Letterman .‘Gerteral Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco. «